For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. (1 Peter 3:12, KJV)
I have heard a lot of people, preachers inclusive, saying once you give your life to Christ then all your troubles will be over.
I don’t know how they arrived at that because Jesus Himself said in John 16:33:
“… In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”
Another word for tribulation is trouble or challenges.
Some challenges we go through sometimes leaves us asking some questions that we really cannot give answers to.
How can you explain to someone who has been faithful in his service to God and has been praying for a promotion at work but gets a sack letter for no reason?
How can you also explain the woman who has trusted God for her own child for decades and upon conception, had a miscarriage?
There are a million and one mind boggling questions we cannot answer, but the truth remains that in the midst of it all God remains God, even when He does not speak.
Job who was a man of Faith and praised God in his troubled days got to a point where he cried out in despair; Job 3.
And in chapter 42 and verse 5 he had an encounter with God and he said;
“I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.”
There is nothing we go through today that God is not aware of. He sees it all but one major mistake we make in this generation of “air condition Christianity” is that we expect everything to be rosy and want God to answer us SHARP SHARP forgetting that the Christian race is truly a race, not a walk.
Even Jesus who is the King of glory had to cry out to God at a time.
After He bore the sins of the world God had to turn His back on Him because He cannot behold sin and Jesus cried out that the Father had forsaken Him. – Matthew 27:46.
If God says He will not leave nor forsake us, why does He stay silent when we need Him the most?
The truth remains that within all our battles God still makes perfect sense when things do not make sense because He knows best.
I am sure that when he was being taken to the den of lions Daniel must have wondered what God was doing.
Same with the 3 Hebrew boys, and a whole lot of others as well.
As a matter of fact, I believe God stays silent to teach us never to trust in our own selves but to stay focused on Him.
Faith in God is letting go of our wisdom for God’s foolishness, if there is any at all. Because even His foolishness is wiser than all the wisdom of men put together.
So remember henceforth, that no matter what happens, God still and will always make PERFECT SENSE even in the face of trials and challenges!
I pray for you, child of God, no matter what you may be going through today, may God show you His mightiness in your life even in His silence, in Jesus Name!
You are blessed!
Samson Aboloje
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